That sting was run back in May by Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor and a colorful cast of characters he assembled for the operation.
Among the revelations, the recordings show:
- Taylor did not involve other law enforcement agencies with more experience in such operations because of his unfounded conspiracy theories that prominent state officials are involved in child sex trafficking.
- Members of a private group posed online as minors — despite Millersville police being told by prosecutors that the sting would be legal only if sworn law enforcement officers were the ones doing the work.
- Shawn Taylor told one operative that investigators would be using “pre-signed search warrants,” which would likely be illegal, according to experts.
- Police arrested one suspect then, when he refused to talk to investigators, they turned him over to the private group for questioning.
- A Millersville detective boasted that the suspect was being taken to a jail where it was likely that he might not come out alive.
And start whacking some — you know, not to make it political — but whole leftist, corrupt, pedophile, this evil thing that’s taken over Nashville,
Hmm, yes, it’s the left that need to tone down the rhetoric.
Let’s see, start from the conclusion that liberals are satanic pedophiles. Use non-law enforcement to identify liberals who must also be pedophiles. Entrap them and use whatever means necessary to take these evil satanic pedophiles off the streets.
Sure, what could go wrong?
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Torture doesn’t work anyways. People will say anything to stop the torture.
That and the suffering is the point.
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While I agree with you on how ridiculous everything this person does and believes in, I am not sure how I feel about the “entrapment” part
While I don’t know the specifics of the entrapment, anyone getting entrapped by pedophile bait should be exposed.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to believe pedophiles only exist in one political camp, especially with mountains of evidence showing anyone with wealth, power, influence, and status (politicians, police, religious leaders, authority figures) are more likely to be pedophiles. It seems that politically, more Republicans than Democrats are convicted pedophiles, but it’s certainly not one or the other.
“Hunting pedophiles” rings hollow when you truly believe that anyone who likes the letter R cannot be a pedophile.
The FBI already investigate LEO across the country more than a decade ago and found that white supremacists were actively infiltrating our police force. Nothing has been done about this finding.
White supremacists are “infiltrating” into police forces in the same way I infiltrate into my buddies house… when they specifically invite me over to hang out with them at their house and stand up and come over and hug me with a warm greeting when I show up.
There is NO sense of infiltration here, rather we are looking at a fresh turd on a hot day (police), and there are flies all over it (white supremacists).
I think the implications are pretty clear when you read between the lines of painting your political enemies as pedophiles. It’s a very easy way to rile people up into a lynch mob. Here’s the fascist playbook on this: target a minority (LGBTQ in particular) as some kind of deviant or predator, legitimize vigilante violence against this group, extend that to the next group or anyone who tries to defend the first group. Rinse and repeat until you are able to consolidate power and successfully kill or imprison your political enemies with impunity.
I hate people who make a big show of being “outraged” over child abuse as a way to cover for their own repugnant, violent beliefs and behaviors.
It’s the same way some prisoner who murdered an entire family will beat or kill pedophiles in prison because he thinks he somehow redeems him on some level by having a “code”. In reality he’s still a massive piece of shit.
It’s deeply self-serving exploitation of a very serious issue.
But it’s also very much like how homophobes watch gay porn. These people are deeply religious, and that fruit comes from the same tree that gives us the virulent homophobes talking about how “everyone has gay thoughts and it’s our duty as soldiers of Christ to ignore them because it’s the demons.” They think everyone else is just acting on the same impulses they have, and this is just them being weak to “demon influence.”
These people are dangerous for kids just like they’re dangerous for everyone else.
It’s the conservative way
Isn’t there some other word for “ignoring laws”?
Police?
MAGA!
“office involved oopsie”
I think… I think it’s one that begins at “Il” and ends with “legal”. So it’s legal after all! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.
The best way to not be caught as a child predator is to pretend you are fighting them.
POLICE and MAGAS ignoring laws that are inconvenient for them??!! I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered hours and hours of videos where Shawn Taylor has appeared on podcasts associated with the widely discredited QAnon conspiracy theories.
Source: link in the OP article to part one of an eight part series.
Editorial: A local news station investigated, uncovered evidence, and appear to be interviewing those involved about what they find analyzing the evidence, then reporting in a series of lengthy articles full of direct quotes. True journalism lives.
Are they CC’ing the DOJ? please tell me they are.
Why would you want dissemination of truth in the hands of the department of “order over justice”? They’ve been fucking us for decades just like the other two branches of governance. These journalist are risking their lives for truth. I trust them much more than any politician.
That’s why it’s a CC, not just letting them sit on the information themselves. If we know they have the information, and they know we know, then pressure to conduct a criminal investigation vastly increases.
You’ve the wrong agency responsible for investigation, I think.
I’m talking about Truth and Justice the principles. I trust these journalists to serve us more effectively than any government agency despite their lack of authority.
So who would you suggest the journalists send the results of their investigation to?
We the People, just as they’ve been doing. No one else gives a fuck about our best interests. Why ask for some assholes to get involved. We’d do just fine taking care of this one on our own.
So what then? You just want to read about it and be mad? Nothing else? No arrests, no trials, no accountability?
Ok, from everything I know about republicans, there is undoubtedly a massive amount of projection going on. How long until we find out that him and 90% of his little renegade militia task force have CP on their devices? Maybe a a year? couple months?
He’s going to claim it was evidence from some minority he citizens-arrested
I don’t care if Republicans are Kidnapping their Neighbors and Torturing them. The LEFT needs to COOL it with their Violence!
Your average law enforcement agent already has a worrying tendency to be a moron. Now imagine if that person is also a conspiracy theorist.
The whole city government of Millersville, TN is a corrupt as fuck shit show. News channel 5 and specifically Phil Williams have been covering all the goings on for years if anyone wants to do a deep dive. Honestly the right thing to do at this point would be to fire all the commissioners, police, fire, literally everyone and one of the neighboring city’s just absorb the town. Lived there 9 years and it’s nothing but an embarrassment.
ACAB
Just a little preview of a second Trump presidency…
Of course. Now investigate them and discover they are the predators. Projection is emerging as their core trait.
And now that private group and any police officers associated with them are all going to prison for lengthy sentences.
Right America?
Right?
good journalism
